From: Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
Date: 2010-01-16T07:40:18+09:00
Subject: Re: WIN32OLE memory leaks


On Jan 15, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Chuck Remes wrote:

>
> On Jan 15, 2010, at 12:28 PM, brabuhr@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Jan 13, 2010, Chuck Remes:
>>> Jan 13, 2010, brabuhr@gmail.com:
>>>> Jan 13, 2010, Chuck Remes:
>>>>> Jan 12, 2010, Luis Lavena:
>>>>>> Jan 12, 2010, Chuck Remes:
>>>>>>> Even though I am clearing the received array out, my program  
>>>>>>> slowly
>>>>>>> leaks memory until it hits its limit (around 1.4 GB on  
>>>>>>> Windows) and
>>>>>>> dies.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please include exact and complete version of Ruby you're using  
>>>>>> (ruby -
>>>>>> v) and under which Windows flavor.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's some code. This is running against 1.8.6-p383 (from
>>>>> rubyinstaller.org) on Windows XP SP3 plus all the latest patches  
>>>>> (Windows
>>>>> Update runs weekly).
>>>>
>>>> Are you able to do a test run with another ruby build, e.g.  
>>>> 1.8.7/1.9.1
>>>> from:
>>>>  http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/
>>>
>>> Running it with 1.9.1-p243 had the same results.
>>
>> IronRuby 0.9 appears to have added Win32OLE:
>> http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2009/08/ironruby-09-released.html#win32ole
>
>
> I'll give ironruby a try on Monday when I get back into the office.  
> Thanks for the pointer to it. I had completely forgotten about it.

I had a few minutes to try this out before I left for the day. Alas,  
the IronRuby support for win32ole is extremely rudimentary. It does  
not handle events or variants. I need both for my script.

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